Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1919 — IT TAKES LOTS OF GROCERIES [ARTICLE]

IT TAKES LOTS OF GROCERIES

To Feed Inmates and Employes of County Poor Farm. Following is the regular quarterly requisition of grocery supplies for the Jasper county poor farm, to feed the dozen to fifteen inmates, the employes and the superintendent’s family for each three months, exclusive of meats or the food raided upon the farm. The requisition below is that filed for the quarter beginning June 1 and shows the prices of the items. While the 'requisitions differ, slightly in some minor respects each quarter, the principal items are the same—that is, five barrels of flour, 500 pounds of sugar, 100 pounds of coffee, etc., are consumed each quarter: GROCERIES 60 lbs. Navy beans $ 6.60 15 lbs. Royal Bk. Powder 6.75 100 lbs. Carn meal i, . 5.50 100 lbs. Santos Peab’y coffee 6.00 1 lb. Ground cinnamon . . .40 1 lb. Ground cloves . .<. , .60 50 lbs. Full cream cheeee 20.00 5 bbls. Best Minn, flour.. 72.50 1 doz. Maine corn 2.08 % doz. Extract lemon .... .75 % doz. Extract vanilla 75 25 lbs. Cracked hominy . . 1,50 15 lbs. Honey 4.50 10 gal. 1 Karo sirup ...... 9.50 1 lb. Nutmeg 50 100 lbs. Armour’s oat meal 6.00 5 packages Loaf sugar . . .25 2 lbs. Ground pepper .. . .80 25 lbs. Best head rice.... 3.12 15 lbs. Seeded raisins .... 2.25 30 lbs. Best butter crackers 6.00 500 lbs. H. & E. sugar.... 55.00 10 4-lb. sacks Table salt.. .80 2 bbls. Salt 5.50 100 bars Soap •** 7.00 % doz. Sapollo 45 10 lbs. Starch 5 lbs. U. C. Jap tea 2.50 30 lbs. Horseshoe tobacco.. 24.00 5 gal. Cider vinegar 125 16 Yeast Foam <8 6 4-lb. Gold Dust . 1.40 $287.63 Following are the dry goods for the present quarter: DRY GOODS 1 doz. Men’s overalls $24.00 1 doz. Men’s shirts 12.00 u. doz. Fleecelined ..< 6.00 doz.,Undershirts ........ 6.00 1 doz. Socks 3.00 2 doz. Mittens 4.50 doz. Jumpers 6.00 4 pr. Men’s shoes . 16.00 3 Papers pins 24 1 doz. Clarks thread....... .65 3 Suits woman’s underwear 2.25 1 doz. Woman’s hose 4.20